What gear did you trade or sell to get Devialet?

[Redwingnine]

I have to ask; what was the difference in sound? I’m asking because I would think a Boulder setup would leave very little to want for.

Haha, fair question!  And the simple answer is I can’t really answer it as the change from Boulder to Devialet was part of a complete system upgrade including the speakers.  It was brought about by a number of factors not all of which had to do with sound quality.

So I never compared the individual components head-to-head but I can say that the new system taken as a whole sounded better, particularly on the streaming input.


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Excellent point.  Evaluating Devialet sound quality has to be taken as a entire setup.  Since the Expert/Expert Pro is a totally integrated solution,  it's not easy to compare the Devialet to a given amp, since the amp is connected to a set of separate components, all using interconnects.    How does one evaluate such a disperse setup, with many variables,  and then compare that to a Expert/Expert Pro setup?

I've heard systems that cost significantly more than the price of say an Expert Pro 220, and didn't come close sonically to the Expert Pro 220.